Crony danger

The Constitution put the Senate in charge of confirmations. One of the reasons was to guard against a president packing the court with cronies, political hacks and extremists. Harriet Miers may not know this, because constitutional law is not her specialty.

If someone like Miers is allowed to sit on the Supreme Court, then we will have about 30 more years of the same kind of courts that President Bush ran against. Instead of evaluating each issue based on the Constitution, each question will be decided by the ideology of the justices. Even if you agree with their ideology, this is a recipe for disaster.